Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:16:43 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:10:23 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > As detailed before, -* has a different meaning defined by policy; if > > we want to see that changed it should be brought up for a vote, > > otherwise its usage in discussions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:10:23 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > As detailed before, -* has a different meaning defined by policy; if > we want to see that changed it should be brought up for a vote, > otherwise its usage in discussions like these seems to suggest to > break an existing policy. So, I read

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:31:28 + "Steven J. Long" wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > > > > Much better for the arch in question to field the bug, than > > > > > tell the user there is no problem, and we don't care. That > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > > Much better for the arch in question to field the bug, than tell > > > > the user there is no problem, and we don't care. That way you can > > > > get the user involved in stabilisation and AT via that

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GTK USE flag situation (gtk, gtk2, gtk3; relevant to bug #420493)

2014-02-18 Thread Ben de Groot
On 12 February 2014 07:04, Samuli Suominen wrote: [...] > > It's sad that people don't follow common sense (which happens to be the > GNOME highlights) > and that everything must be turned into a policy of somesort so people > get it. > [...] > > Just make the gnome gtk3 policy the guideline if yo